Fame High (movie)

Scott Hamilton Kennedy's excellent scrapbook documentary "Fame High," which premieres Thursday on Showtime (after a brief theatrical release), spends a year at LACHSA, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, a by-audition public institution located on the grounds of Cal State L.A. Quite possibly you were unaware of its existence until just a moment ago.

The title, of course, recalls the movie "Fame" and the TV show fashioned from it (and the Kids from Fame, fashioned from the TV show), though it is more than possible that many kids from LACSHA have never heard of any of it. (Lee Curreri, anyone? No?)

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